With Google rolling out the mobile-first index in 2017, the performance of a website’s mobile version is more relevant than ever. In this session, Marcus will reveal the most important mobile Ranking Factors, with a particular focus on content. Secondly, we will illuminate keyword opportunities with a much larger search volume on mobile, and analyze user needs and content demands that differ between desktop and mobile. By analyzing brands’ websites that exhibit outstanding mobile performance, you’ll take away best practices for mobile search optimization in 2017.
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SearchLove San Diego 2017 | Marcus Tober | Ranking Factors in a Mobile-First World
1. Marcus Tober
San Diego
February 23, 2017
HOWTO SURVIVE IN A MOBILE-FIRSTWORLD
(WHENYOU'VE SPENTYEARS OPTIMIZINGYOURWEBSITE FOR DESKTOP)
2. • Founder and CTO of Searchmetrics
• Searchmetrics is a software company
(SEO/Content Marketing) with 220 people in
Berlin, London, New York and San Mateo
• In LOVE with SEARCH since 2001
Marcus Tober
7. What does Mobile-First mean for my page?
– John Mueller, Google, July 2016
What does
Mobile-First
mean?
John Mueller – July 2016
“The general idea is that
we want the same
content available on your
desktop site to be
available on your mobile
site”
28. Content Marketing Challenges
Worldwide, $145 billion1 is
spent on the production and
marketing of digital
content.
Source #1: Global Content Marketing Spendings 2014 - PQ Media (June 2015)
Source #2: A New Era of Content (2015) – iProspect
Only 1 in 5 pieces2 of content
is ever consumed by real
people and engaged with!
= $116 billion is wasted!
57. The user needs to feel happy with the result.
User Experience
But businesses often fail in providing the right content
for the respective user intention
?
58. To engage perfectly with your audience, you’ll need …
… the right content … in the right moment … on the right device.
59. • Google has 3.5 billion searches per day
globally
• 81% of online shoppers read product
reviews or related information before
making a purchase
• But 79% of all purchases still happen
offline
Source: http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/81-shoppers-conduct-online-research-making-purchase-infographic/208527
Online/Offline buying process
60. • 54% of offline shoppers conduct
online research before they buy
offline
(ROBO: Research Online, Buy
Offline)
Source: https://marketingtechblog.com/robo-research-online-buy-offline/
Online/Offline buying process
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64. There is no bestbuy.com ranking on 1st or 2nd page on Google.com
65.
66. OMG!
There is an incredible search volume behind
this kind of informational -> transactional
search…!
Topic: How to survive in a mobile-first world(when you've spent years optimizing your website for Desktop)
35 min
Description:
With Google rolling out the mobile-first index in 2017, the performance of a website’s mobile version is more relevant than ever. This session reveals the most important mobile Ranking Factors, with a particular focus on content. Secondly, we will illuminate keyword opportunities with a much larger search volume on Mobile, and analyze user needs and content demands that differ between Desktop and Mobile. By analyzing brands’ websites that exhibit outstanding mobile performance, you’ll take away best practices for mobile search optimization in 2017.
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This is the quote from Google‘s webmaster blog.
Until now the desktop page has been the basis for crawling and rankings.
Google looks at the page and evaluate it. Also looks to see if there is a mobile version and whether it is good – this then influences the mobile search results.
For the mobile-first index, the mobile page is the basis for crawling and rankings.
Google now evaluates first the mobile version and then looks at any different desktop versions.
At least in theory.
What‘s important is that we don‘t really know yet how this is going to change website‘s evaluation so we shouldn‘t panic yet.
Word Counts are in the versions that are first loaded – on mobile Wikipedia works with menus which open.
Just to say what Ranking Factors are and that there are some coming up and that Desktop and Mobile are NOT the same.
Ohne wiki
Ohne wiki
We can take this out if it is too much.
Ohne wiki
People use all kinds of devices to look for things. This is a guy looking for water with a divining rod. That‘s clear, right?
Message: We need to know what people are looking for with what.
Maybe we don‘t need this if we have the previous page – it‘s maybe too much?
It seems great to rank 1st place on desktop but if 65% of search is on mobile and you are on 2nd (and you are behind the Apps) then clearly you aren‘t probably getting as much traffic as you think.
Guess what? The desktop page looks great but the results are basically unreadable on mobile.
It doesn‘t have to be like that!
Joker is what you might get with the Batman quiz shown on the previous slides – he seems happy with the result!
NB @Marcus – these are updated from the 2017 version of the study from Content Markting Institute – so numbers are new
NB @Marcus – these are updated from the 2017 version of the study from Content Markting Institute – so numbers are new
This is still the 2016 study because they don‘t have this question in 2017
Search is huge!
It’s just that we have to think more like our customers. Think more like businesses think. Question customers more…
It works on Mobile too!
It works on Mobile too! (Take this out?)
Again – same mistakes are possible on mobile.
And do it great on mobile too!
This shows desktop visibility (couldn‘t get a comparison graph with mobile) but the message is the same.
Quantity doesn‘t always mean quality!
Who remembers Pokemn Go?
Who still has it on their phone?
It was only half a year ago!
Was a massive spike in July but things move fast – Pokemon Go was relevant for maybe one month – see share price
This means “publish and forget“ is dead. You have to stay relevant for long-term success.
Generally, well ranking pages have longer texts.
So there is a correlation… For some searches, results with shorter text
are the best result for the user experience.
What does that mean for Ranking Factors?